How We Failed Aaron Swartz
Killing himself a little over a week ago following imprisonment for “hacking” into academic documents and trying to make them available for all, American law enforcement clearly needs to realign its priorities.
Killing himself a little over a week ago following imprisonment for “hacking” into academic documents and trying to make them available for all, American law enforcement clearly needs to realign its priorities.
“If democracy is ever to be
threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices
and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come
from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New
World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.”
[Tony
Benn, British Labour Party Member of Parliament]